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July 17, 2008 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12 The Apostle Paul knew his true enemies. None of his enemies were human. They may have carried human forms and faces, but Paul knew that the resistance to the Gospel of Jesus that he preached came from the world of the dark. Paul fought against the proclamations of heretics and demons. The words not from God were the weapons of spiritual wickedness. Demons needed the support of the godless to spread lies among the world’s populations, copying the mannerisms of the Apostles and the true prophets of the God of Heaven. The Apostle Paul knew the true God well. Jesus is the only way, truth and life and he has been since the day of his resurrection. Religious law and tradition has been back-staged and remains so to the need for grace through faith in the beloved Son of God. This is not the message emanating from those principalities and powers that hold sway over the world’s media and many of the world’s more prominent pulpits. The message being heard from such sources is a message of love and inclusion and peace and hope. Yet that message is also infused with a love of sin, and inclusion of the sexually reprobate, the peace of appeasement with the unrighteous and a hope that all manner of decadence be acceptable in the world’s religious centers. The message of the unrighteous is loud and enticing God has always seemed to need only the one voice. Reading through the Hebrew/Christian scriptures one can readily see that God managed to salvage at least one true voice amid all those preaching falsehoods. Noah, Abraham, Elijah, Isaiah, Malachi and the several other prophets were capable men speaking the absolutes of the True God. In more modern times, history recorded the efforts of Luther, Tyndale, Spurgeon, Hess, Schofield and Graham: individuals who were faithful to the meaning of God’s Scriptures in that salvation is an event of faith without the works of the law. There are individual voices today who manage to preach the true Gospel of Christ even unto the populations of nations Islamic, Chinese, Russian and Hindu. This was the command of Jesus, held up by faithful yet singular voices. Souls are coming to Christ in areas of the world that have been suffering in a darkness imposed by spiritually wicked rulers. The Christian does not fight against physical enemies. His battle is against the idealism of the spiritually corrupt. God’s word is the standard that must never be compromised or bartered for peace. God’s word is the only true peace for the mind and the heart. Jesus is that Prince of Peace that must reign in the heart of any man for that man to know what true peace involves. Jesus once told his disciples that had they given water to the thirsty, given food to the hungry, visited the sick and the jailed and carried his message of salvation to the masses it was as if personally doing those things for him. As men of faith it was not too much to ask or expect. The message is simple. Salvation is by grace through faith. It is not something we ourselves can generate. It is a result of our response to the message of Jesus. Salvation is the beginning step. Every step afterward must be a step on the straight and narrow path laid out by the Lord Christ. A Christian, knowing his Lord, does not hesitate to allow his singular voice to be heard above the din created by the multitude of the unrighteous. That is our true battle. ------------ Email Skip: skiptoomaloo@hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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